A Comparison of Diabetes Group Education as Administered Through Telemedicine Versus as Administered in Person

NCT ID: NCT00629434

Last Updated: 2021-10-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: TERMINATED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 68 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2001-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2008-08-31

Brief Summary

This study compares group diabetes education in-person versus via telemedicine

Detailed Description

Diabetes education is important in the treatment of the person with diabetes. A diabetes self-management education program not only educates the patient and his/her family to the basics of diabetes care but also integrates diabetes care into daily life while providing coping skills to adjust to this chronic illness. Unfortunately, comprehensive diabetes care is not available to all persons with diabetes. One obstacle to the provision of comprehensive diabetes care is the unavailability of a diabetes treatment center. many people with diabetes live too far or do not have the transportation to be able to attend education programs that met national standards. We have shown that telemedicine is an effective means to provide comprehensive 1:1 individualized diabetes education to persons with diabetes. We now propose to test the hypothesis that diabetes groups education classes can be provided effectively through telemedicine technology to individuals living in rural areas. Patients with diabetes will received diabetes education via teleconferencing from our Joslin Diabetes center. The participants will be assessed before and after diabetes education via telemedicine using measures of glycemia (A1c) and assessments of patient satisfaction, emotional well being, and behavioral change and compared to results from participants attending our diabetes education classes in-person.

Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

1

This arm will receive diabetes education via telemedicine

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

diabetes education via telemedicine

Intervention Type: OTHER

This arm will receive diabetes group education via telemedicine

2

diabetes education in-person

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

diabetes education in-person

Intervention Type: OTHER

In this arm the group of patients with diabetes will receive diabetes education in-person

Interventions

diabetes education via telemedicine

This arm will receive diabetes group education via telemedicine

Intervention Type: OTHER

diabetes education in-person

In this arm the group of patients with diabetes will receive diabetes education in-person

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus
• age > 18 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Profound vision loss
• Severe hearing impairment

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 85 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

State University of New York - Upstate Medical University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Locations

Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at SUNY Upstate Medical University

Syracuse, New York, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

UMU IRB # 4510F

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

UMU IRB # 4510F

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id